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The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbours as one living a pure life. A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child. This... continue...

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		Posted on Dec.08.2012 @ 01:28PM EDT by leoj99 Is my life pre-destined
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Reply from leoj99 Dec.08.2012 01:30PM EDT		I think he is saying... Stop Thinking...don't make so many assumptions.
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Reply from sit_teh Dec.08.2012 04:57PM EDT →Email sit_teh		All you get by stopping thinking is just stopping thinking.
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Reply from sit_teh Dec.08.2012 08:23PM EDT →Email sit_teh		Which is universally good.
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Reply from Riverstone Dec.17.2012 10:35PM EDT		This is not so much a Zen question as a metaphysical one. So I will answer it in like kind. Eternity is comprised of every conceivalble variation. The begining, middle and end in each varient is already mapped out. So yes, everything is predetermined, and because you have the ability to chose by free will an altrrnate path, it is also true that you determin your fate,though your ideal destination may not be the outcome. It is like wandering a maze with infinite soloutions, each time you start again the linear story will appear diffrent.Yet all of it has already occured all at once within the blink of eternity.
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Reply from Joe Chip Dec.17.2012 10:40PM EDT		Change your karma - consider your intentions; consider your motives.
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Reply from Woodsman Dec.17.2012 10:47PM EDT		Within each movement the light shines forward to see each thing as one's own, motion arises from above it all, from far to near and big as small.... .... ........... ............. .............................
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Reply from Joe Chip Dec.18.2012 07:57AM EDT		A release of energy, sent out and received in every direction.
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